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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 4, 2004 Action Agenda Item No. ~-c~ SUBJECT: Soccer Superfund -Policy and Guidelines DEPARTMENT: Recreation & Parks, ERCD PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: 1) Draft Policy and Guidelines Commissioner Barry Jacobs 2) Soccer Organizations Demographics Lori Taft, 245-2660 3) Soccer Symposium Report Excerpt David Stancil, 245-2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider a draft policy and set of guidelines for use of the Soccer Superfund. BACKGROUND: In November 2001, Orange County voters approved a $20 million bond package far parks and open space. Included in this package was $2 million to create a Soccer Superfund to fund new soccer fields around Orange County. This concept grew out of the Soccer Symposium Task Force report of 2000, which investigated needs for soccer fields throughout the County. Before any funding can be appropriated from the Soccer Superfund, the Board asked that a policy and guidelines be developed regarding uses of the fund. County staff, in conjunction with Commissioner Jacobs, have developed the attached draft document in recent months, and it is provided here for the Board's initial review and feedback. The draft policy and guidelines would propose to: • Identify the purposes of the SuperFund (construction of new fields and, as a secondary use, acquisition of land for new fields) • Outline guidelines far construction of new fields by the County • Create a matching grant option for qualified private and non-profit entities • Develop conditions and criteria for evaluating appropriations from the Superfund • Outline guidelines far use for land acquisitions